Mr.Gallatin did not like French diplomacy, nor did he admire that of England.

He wrote to his son: 'Some of the French statesmen occasionally say what is not true; here (in London) they conceal the truth.' But while in diplomacy he found strength and the opinion of that strength to be the only weapons, he felt satisfaction that the country could support its rights and pretensions by assuming a different attitude.

In the course of the negotiations Mr.Gallatin learned that one of the king's ministers had complained of the tone of United States diplomacy towards England, and had added, that it was time to show that it was felt and resented.

No such fault could attach to the correspondence of Mr.Rush and Mr.King, or to that of Mr.Clay, which Mr.Addington had found quite acceptable; but it was ascribed to Mr.Adams's instructions to Mr.
Rush, printed by order of the Senate.

Mr.Gallatin later discovered that the offensive remarks were in Baylies's report on the territory west of the Stony Mountains.